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The woman was in deadly earnest, and moreover, I dare say, a bit timmersome, now that the whole Borough had its eyes on her, and defeat meant disgrace. She never showed a sign of any doubt, though; and when the great day came, she surpassed herself by the way she dressed.
If ever you've had to do with timmersome folks I dare say you've noted how talkative they get as soon as danger's over. Mrs.
And as he and his little sister pursued their way to the cottage, Elizabeth hobbled off towards the Abbey, muttering, as she went, "I hope Alizon an Mistress Nutter winna meet. Nah that it matters, boh still it's better not. Strange, the wench should ha' fainted. Boh she's always foolish an timmersome, an ey half fear has lost her heart to young Richard Assheton.
He glowered at her and let out a curse; but the girl was his match, though timmersome enough in an ordinary way. "Iss, iss," she said scornful-like; "I know the kind of coward you are, Mr. Phoby Geen.
Short-handed as they were, of course they'd no business to carry on as they did 'specially as my wife declares from her looks that Mrs. Blake was feelin' faint afore they started. She always seemed to me a weak, timmersome woman at the best; small and ailin' to look at." "And Mr. Blake?" "Oh, he was a strong-made gentleman: tall, with a big red beard." "The son?"
"You see, the doctor's wife she's summat timmersome, an' looks arter the lockin' up every night herself wery partikler. Then she 'as all the keys up into her own bedroom o' nights so, you see, in consikence of her uncommon care, she keeps all the locks clear for you and me to work upon!"
"She in the blue cloak, d'ee mean? an old, ancient, wisht-lookin' body?" "Yes." "A timmersome woman, like?" "That's it." "Well, her name's Cordely Pinsent." The procession reclaimed his attention. He received a passing wink from the charioteer, caught it on the volley and returned it with a solemn face; or rather, the wink seemed to rebound as from a blank wall.
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